Chris Jammi's Short Story : The Story

MCEWAN: Deceit was important in Part 1 as it foreshadows towards Paul and Lola’s lies. The first-time deceit is shown as important is when Paul meets the Quincey siblings. My characterisation of Paul gives the readers an insight into his greedy and unscrupulous behaviour, only portraying his successfulness. While my characterisation of Lola portrays that she is young and naive, having no idea of the fire she is playing with. Lola wants to be seen as an adult and tries to act older than her years. As Paul meets the family he offers Lola a chocolate bar, and in a seductive voice forces her to “bite it” (Pg. 62). This first encounter is when Paul sees her as an innocent little girl, wanting to be treated

How could a man honestly believe that what was being done to her was what she desired, and, with the knowledge that it wasn't, then deliberately continue to hurt the one he loved? How could a sane and thoughtful spouse not be aware that, even if she hadn't spoken the safe-word, it wasn't right, and that he should stop? The answer was because, at this time, Tom Ross was not fully sane. As in his adolescent years, and a rookie Patrolman, where he'd been encouraged by the authority that the job brought with it, he'd once again become his Father's son, and was in a frenzy. Lila Ross didn't exist, and neither did the concept of love. All that mattered was power and control, and the feeling he was unstoppable.

Of all the taunts and insults Tom Ross had thrown at his wife, and the acts he'd so far perpetrated in this 'pretend' rape, - the harsh slaps to her face, throwing her around as if she were nothing but a rag-doll, forcing to her knees, and ripping the expensive corset of her body, tearing it to shreds in the process, and mockingly laughing as she almost choked his cock as he uncaringly and violently violated her mouth; that was the one phrase, if he'd had his senses about him, that he would have immediately regretted.

Those words seemed to open the gate to her confessions. She explained that when Tom Robinson left, her father came running in after her after going into town to drink his sense off. He punched her, and as she fell unto the ground he took advantage of her.

Maloney said to her, but we learn from context clues that it has something to do with him leaving Mrs. Maloney. Whatever was said to Mrs. Maloney was enough to make her snap and murder Mr. Maloney. In the 1960s women were thought to be dependant on men in particular housewives relied on them for money, protection, happiness and love. Mr. Maloney takes that away and causes his wife to resort to murder. After Mary Maloney had murdered her husband she covers it up. Not to save her life but manly because she was scared for what would happen to her unborn child “what were the laws about murderers with unborn children?..Mary Maloney didn’t know. And she certainly wasn’t prepared to take the chance” (155). Looking at the story you could take it that Mary Maloney was a sociopath not only murdering her husband but then covering it up. Any mother would do anything to keep their child safe. This line shows that Mary was driven to cover it up to keep her child safe. Mary Maloney is the average housewife of the story’s day and

On July 24, 2002, David Lynn Harris was brutally murdered. David had been seeing another woman in secrecy; when his wife, Clara Harris, found out, she ran over him three times with their daughter in the passenger seat witnessing everything. Clara was sentenced to 20 years in prison along with a fine of $10,000. Just as Clara was found guilty, so should Mary Maloney from the short story, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. This story was based in the fifties and clearly shows the roles of men and women. However, when Patrick, the husband of Mary, came home, he spoke of bad news and Mary hit him on the head with a leg of lamb, hence the name of the story. Readers can automatically come to the conclusion that Mary Maloney is guilty. Her mental stability before, during, and after the incident, the logical cover up story, and her emotions and actions towards her wrong doings all prove that she was aware and responsible for the hostile act towards Patrick, and therefore should be proven guilty.

To start off, it can be clearly seen from the short story that Mary Maloney is guilty. She makes a conscious effort to make sure she reacts as if she has not committed this crime in the text “Lamb to Slaughter” she says, “If she finds anything unusual or terrible when she got home, then it would be a shock and she would have to react with grief and horror.”(Dahl 383) By her stating this it shows that she knows she is guilty and that she killed her husband. The main reason I chose this quote was that it shows that she knows what she is talking about and that she has to act like this otherwise she will be caught and

228) in relation to the way that she is not able to rid herself of the way she separated two lovers. Briony had previously confessed to Robbie when she was ten-years-old, as revealed by Robbie’s thoughts in part 2 of the novel. “He had betrayed her love by favouring her [Briony’s] sister,” (pg. 233) which means Briony could have accused Robbie of rape to separate Cecilia from him. She did not feel guilty until she grew older and began to consider the complexity of her allegation. The war may take Robbie away from Cecilia and leave her devastated all because of a mistake Briony made. In addition, she will never be able to witness the lovers reuniting and may never be able to atone for her mistakes after all. Like a room without a door, she will not be able to escape the fact that she separated two

Because these flaws are inherently present in Briony, it may be more difficult for her to want to actively seek change in the core of her character. When Briony’s cousins from the North, Lola, Jackson, and Pierrot, arrive to stay at her house because of a “bitter domestic civil war” (McEwan 8), Briony shows no signs of remorse or concern for her family members. Instead, she is more worried about her own place in a hierarchy that only she is aware of, “[feeling] the disadvantage of being two years younger than the other girl, of having a full two years’ refinement weigh against her” (McEwan 13). Instead of experiencing feelings of pity for her refugee cousins, Briony imposes her own egotistical will upon them, and acts deliberately belligerent toward them, especially Lola, without provocation. Her blatant disregard for the wellbeing of others may simply be considered by some to be petty because of her position as a young girl, however McEwan highlights the static quality of Briony’s selfish character continually throughout the novel and at the end, even when Briony is nearly eighty years

Briony does not know who she sees attacking Lola but she lies and says she does so she would have importance in the situation. Briony then claims that the guy she saw that attacked Lola was Robbie Turner. Her claims places Robbie Turner an innocent man into jail. He can no longer go to school to become a doctor because of the occurrence, which makes him joining the army and later on dies from an infection. Brioy’s action allows her family suffer also. Briony is also the reason her cousin, Lola, marries Paul Marshall who is the one who really attacked her. Briony could have prevented all of these circumstances if she had only told the truth. Robbie Turner would still be alive and gone to college to become a doctor like he wanted. Briony’s sister Cecilia would not have separated herself from her family. Lola would not have get married to

In Chapter 13, there was a scene involving Paul Marshall and Lola by the temple. In this scene Lola was ‘raped’ by Paul Marshall and was discovered by Briony. The ‘rape’ incident represented a lot of things like telling us a lot about Paul Marshall’s character. Paul Marshall seemed as if he wasn’t successful the first time he tried to rape Lola, so he went after her a second time when everyone else wasn’t around. No one will know his clear motives, but I believe that he desired the power he felt over girls and that masculinity. If I remember correctly, Marshall touched Cecilia, hoping that it would stir her into pursuing him, but it didn’t. Cecilia had said that it would’ve been “almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid.” She recognized that the most attractive thing about him was his success in business and to marry

Mexico itself was beautiful, Jay Kelley thought to himself one night in his hotel room. The architecture, the people, the art and culture, it was all wonderful. The food was divine, the women even more so, and Jay had never felt so simultaneously happy and out of place in his life. To Mexico, he was another tourist. A balding, middle-aged white guy with a fanny pack that his almost ex-wife pushed into his hand before he left for the airport. She told him to be real careful of the pickpockets “down there”, and Jay resented her so much in that moment, he wanted to slap her upside the head and scream “You’ve only ever been to Cancun, ya dummy! What do you know?” Instead, he smiled tightly and waved a tense goodbye as she drove away from the gate, actually breathing a sigh of relief once she was out of sight, like in the movies.

The exposition was that Mary Maloney was always home by herself all day. She used to wait from the minute her husband left the house until the time when he arrived home to see him again. Mary’s spouse was named Patrick Maloney and was a policeman. He was a serious, ignorant man. One evening, he arrived home, but he was acting strange. The conflict was that Patrick

Here we see Briony explain that the apartment scene never took place but aside from that she describes the book as “all the truth, no rhymes, no embellishments”. This repeated quote helps link the this scene with the apartment scene and so helps the audience understand the apartment scene is the way in which Briony believes she should have apologised but the real way in which she dealt with her guilt was by writing the book and creating a new ending. She says that “in the book I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they missed out on in real life” and this quote is made even more powerful by the close up of Briony’s face in which we see true emotion. We see that Briony feels that this was the only way in which she could make amends for what she did and the fact that Briony is releasing the book at such an old age could be interpreted to mean that she was never able to break free from the guilt she felt for what she had done. This scene as a whole can be read as a psychological exploration of guilt as the audience interprets that Briony was never truly able to move on with her life because of her guilt and that she feels partly responsible for Cecilia’s and Robbie’s death. We are able to see how guilt can ruin someone’s life if they are not able to move on or make up for their

In the year 2001, there was a kid named Chris Pewtersmith who lived in LA California. In 2001 the lottery was now legal for children 14 and up. Chris tried to win the lottery after his first ticket, he won $l5,000,000,000,000,000. His first thought was to buy a mansion for his and his family to live in instead of that tiny home fit for three. He had a mom, a dad, and a big sister. One night while Chris was eating dinner with his family, the doorbell rang. Chris opened the door to find that a tall man named Stewie. “Hello, is this the Pewtersmiths?” asked Stewie. “Yes, this is the Pewtersmiths.” “Hello chris I’m your big brother.” said Stewie Chris invited Stewie for dinner with his family. They talked for awhile and then after they were done eating, they showed Stewie to the guest room. In the morning, Stewie was the first person up. Chris was the second, mom third, dad fourth, sister fifth. Chris’s big sister name was Megan or just Meg. Stewie yelled “Breakfast!” “Yeah!” everyone yelled. They had Pancakes, sausage, and scrambled eggs. They had OJ and milk for their beverage. After that, they went swimming in their pool. At dinner Stewie announced that he had some big news. He said “ I’m have some good news, I’m Chris’s long lost brother.” How cool is that!” Their jaws drop so far to the ground that I swear that they shook the hollywood sign. They said “Well isn’t that good news, right honey?” said mom with sarcastic confusion. “Um Stewie, why don’t you go swim in the